Politics
Costa Rica’s mega-prison receives first inmates
President Laura Fernandez inaugurated the $35m mega-prison built to house up to 5,100 inmates near San Jose.
Advertisement
Topic
costa
Health
WHO and Costa Rica preview technology pooling initiative to ensure access to COVID-19 health products for all
Geneva, 15 May 2020 – Presidents Carlos Alvarado Quesada of Costa Rica and Sebastián Piñera of Chile joined WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus today to announce progress on a technology platform that aims to lift access barriers to effective vaccines, medicines and other health products against COVID-19. Costa Rica proposed the idea at the beginning of the COVID-19 outbreak and several countries are now backing the proposal. “Our proposal relies on solidarity,” said President Alvarado of Costa Rica. “It’s a Solidarity call to action to Member States, to academia, to companies,
Politics
Costa Rica opens mega-prison as Bukele model embraced across Latin America
President Laura Fernandez says mega-prison is part of 'tough-on-crime model' embraced by her government.
World
'Isaiah 'approaches the Gulf Coast in the United States as a powerful category 3 hurricane
Its winds reach 195 kilometers an hour. The National Centre for Promised Hurts that touches ground between the Florida Panhandle and Alabama
World
Bernal to Costa, the restaurant in Valencia where a millenial and a GenZ want to feed you as your grandmother would.
It opened its doors a year ago, in a neighborhood outside the most tourist center and with an atypical letter: from the survival plate of 'Mom is in a hurry' to the meatballs of 'Gourmet TV'
World
Mijas for an autumn getaway: three municipalities in one in the heart of the Costa del Sol
With the historic town located in the mountains, Las Lagunas as an intermediate pass and La Cala as a beach area, this municipality of Málaga offers many plans
Sports
Man Utd & Arsenal eye Porto's Costa - Tuesday's gossip
Arsenal and Manchester United eye Porto defender Alberto Costa, Manchester City will not let Erling Haaland leave on the cheap if they are relegated, Liverpool retain an interest in Real Madrid midfielder Aurelien Tchouameni, plus more.
World
Hurricane Polo touches land in Mexico as authorities warn of possible sudden floods and winds that "threaten life"
The category 3 storm approaches the state of Baja California Sur, on the coast of the North-West Pacific of Mexico.
Advertisement
Politics
Costa Rica's President Dismisses the Chancellor for Not Notifying her of a Meeting of the Shield of the Americas
Laura Fernández accuses Manuel Tovar, an important piece of government, of not sending her the invitation in New York while she was visiting Colombia
Politics
Costa Rica minister fired for unapproved meeting with Trump in US
President Fernandez dismisses foreign minister over his attendance at the "Shield of the Americas" meeting in New York.
Politics
Costa Rica's Opposition Accuses Laura Fernández's Government of "Authoritarianism"
For decades, Costa Rica operated as the last oasis of democratic stability and security in Central America. Today, hit by an unprecedented murder crisis, the Executive is driving a 'hard hand' recipe and judicial reforms that open a collision front with the Supreme Court and the opposition. We discussed in France 24 with Mr Edgardo Araya (Front Amplio) on the risk of an institutional break: 'We are concerned to end up being like El Salvador'.